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This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons


The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo’oalewa.

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